Breakout: Intermediate

Breakout Rooms- Intermediate

Presented by: Emily Sattler & Cody Derr

Explore a variety of instructional strategies that lend themselves to effective breakout sessions

Instructional Strategies

Engagement

Discover new ways to analyze and improve learner engagment during breakout sessions.

Management

Identify methods to manage breakout rooms and limit distractions for learners.

Take part in an engaging breakout lesson. Can you solve the case?

Immersive Example

Discuss ways to apply concepts learned from this session to an upcoming lesson in your class. The goal is to walk away with a solid starting point that you can use on your own or build upon with your instructional specialist.

Collaborative Workshop

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The Case

Thomas Sutterfield is a sick patient that has just been admitted to the hospital. He is the 14th patient admitted to your unit with similar symptoms There are no current leads to the route of the problem and nearby hospitals are receiving similar cases. Many people have died. You must act quickly. Identify the source of the outbreak. Once we know the source, we can prevent further sicknesses and the medical team can treat the impacted patients.

Can you solve the outbreak and save countless lives?

Choose your difficulty level!

This is the challenge group. You will receive only patient information and a map.

Dean of Medicine- BO# 1 & 2

Head Doctor- BO # 3 & 4

This group will be supplied with patient information, a map, and two clues to aid them in cracking the case.

Resident Doctor- BO # 5 & 6

This group will be supplied with patient information, a map, and five clues to aid them in cracking the case.

Use the map and patient information to identify the source of the outbreak!

Patient Information

Hover to review info, click to place a pin on the map

• Matilda Wright

• Thomas Sutterfield

• Mucky Johnson

• Tolly Martin

• John & Mary Canty

• Slye Children

• 25 families on Queens Row

• Owen & Obedience Turner

• 18 Families on Paddy Lane

• 12 Families on Ely St.

• 9 Families on Butcher Lane

Clues

Share your Theory

Click a card to reveal the clue

Share your Theory

BAck to Map

Did you

Solve the Case?

You've Solved the CAse!

This is an example of Tiered instruction. Learners were able to choose their level of difficulty based on how comfortable they were with the challenge. We will discuss more ways to use tiered instruction and scaffolding when we discuss instructional strategies.

Once finished, explore UDL on the next page until we are ready to continue.

Universal Design for Learning

Optimizing teaching and learning for all people based on scientific insights into how humans learnPlanning focuses on

• WHY learners should learn the content.
• WHAT content needs to be learned and assessed.
• HOW content and learning is presented.

Three Key Elements to

Engage Learners

Content

Peers

Teacher

Management

Provide Support

• Identify and address barriers to learning in planning
• Move between groups
• Ensure enough time to visit all groups
• Provide feedback on progress and redirect as needed
• Let learners know they can ask you for help
• Address learners as a group & individually
• Create a "Help Room" that learners can go to for one on one support.
• Create a "Break Room" for learners who are away from computer

Establish Expectations

• Create and reference breakout room guidelines
• Clarify purpose & tasks
• Use deliverables wisely
• Set a timeframe and stick to it.
• Consider learner Groupings

Put Learners in Control

• Most of the teachers work is done BEFORE the lesson starts
• Use technology tools to structure lesson and guide learners
• Provide ways for learners to give feedback
• **NEW** Use polls to push to BO rooms!

Instructional Strategies

Tiered Instruction

Topic Selection

Web Quest & Gallery Walk

Peer Tutors

Discussions

Jig Saw

Collaborative Workshop

Let's Apply!

Choose from the six instructional strategies discussed. With your group, share ways your selected strategy could be used in an upcoming lesson. Provide feedback to others who share ideas.

This is an open forum to learn with and from each other.

Share your ideas HERe!

Next Steps

Think about your next step based on what we discussed during this session. Write your next step on a sticky note, index card, or virtual note pad and place it somewhere you will be reminded of this task

Implement a strategy & share the results with your instructional specialist!

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Teaching Presence

The design, facilitation and direction of cogitive and social processes for realizing personally meaningful and educationally worthwhile learning outcomes.

Questions to Ask When Planning1. How will I interact with learners? 2. How will learners interact with me?

Consider

• Pre-record your own instructional material
• Start your own traditions
• Make camera's an expectation
• Create ways to increase and individualize feedback
• Utilize tools for multiple ways to respond

Peer Tutor

Facilitate leadership development in advanced learners & support those who need additional practice

Setup

• Create collaborative space for learning (what tools will support this format?)
• Identify tutors for the topic
• Meet with tutors before class to review content and highlight important tutor skills
• Determine how learners will be grouped; (random, poll, assigned)

Benefits

Learners see each other's perspectives to help them progress. Teaching others helps learning reach a greater depth Social interaction may help motivate learners to engage in the learning process.

Social Presence

The ability of participants to project themselves socially and emotionally as 'real' people through a medium of communication.

Facilitate Collaboration

• Create collaborative workspaces to enable individuals to participate within their comfort level.
• Creating a list of roles creates structure and sets expectations.
• Consider method for group organization

Cognitive Presence

The extent to which learners are able to construct and confirm meaning through sustained reflection and discourse.

Suggestions

• Relate to prior experiences learners likely have (phenomena based learning is a powerful tool)
• Support learners to draw connections to prior content through interactive technology
• Design challenge activity allowing learners to apply new concepts

• Incorporate learners interests

• Provide opportunities for learners to explore their understanding of content BEFORE being taught
• Ask tighter DOK questions.

Discussions

Before Breakouts

• Discuss how virtual discussions feel different than in-person discussions
• Clearly establish expectations and mechanics.
• Discuss respecting opposing ideas

• Create guiding prompts, but allow space for fluid conversation

Examples

After Breakouts

• Learners explore their own views on a subject
• Learners are asked to identify evidence to support an assigned view
• Learners collaborate to establish a view

• Allow group leaders and individuals time to share key conversation pieces
• Offer Mic Alternatives
• Create space for all to share
• Model respectful disagreement

Tiered Instruction

- Same information- Varied levels of support

Examples

learners grouped by on supports provided

• Challenge, light support, full support

Learners grouped by ability to answer independent practice question

• Ready harder questions, Needs additional practice, Requires reteaching

Learners grouped by method of desired instruction

• Independent guided Instruction, learner led small groups, Teacher Lead group

Web Quest & Gallery Walks

Groups of learners explore a variety of information

• Provide learners with a set of tasks that need to be completed at each stage.
• Create Check in points
• Set a timeframe
• Assign learners leaders and/or roles
• organize content in one easy to navigate resource.

Example

• Energy Exploration Webqust

• Language Arts sensory words Gallery Walk

Examples

Topic Selection

Learners choose between different topics

• Life cycles;

Learners choose between different articles on the same topic

• Cultural Music:

Allows learners to learn the same concepts through different topics or media

Thailand's Country Music,

Music in South Africa,

Music of the Cherokee,

Benga Music,

Drums in traditional Nigerian Music

Learners choose the media they prefer

Read a Walkthrough,

Watch a video,

Complete a simulation,

Work in a small group with your teacher

Jig Saw

Subgroups become "experts" in one component of a whole

Example

Key Events of the Cold War

• Containment of Russia
• Arms Race between US and Russia
• Development of Hydrogen Bomb
• Space Exploration
• Fall of the Berlin Wall

Each group analyzes sub topic and brings infor back to the whole group.

**Think about collaborative technology and group roles!

Walk-through